Imad Mughniyah

Imad Fayez Mughniyah (7 December 1962-12 February 2008) was a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO) and Hezbollah, two major terrorist groups in the Middle East. He was responsible for the Beirut barracks bombing and the 1983 US Embassy bombing, both in 1983, and was assassinated by Israel in 2008.

Biography
Mughniyah was born in Lebanon in 1962, and was a Shi'ite Muslim. In the 1980s he was one of the founders of the anti-Israel Hezbollah movement as well as the Islamic Jihad Organization. In 1983 he took part in the bombings of a Lebanese Army barracks and a US embassy in Beirut, and kidnapped dozens of foreigners in Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War in the whole of the 1980s. His group claimed responsibility for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing to coincide with the Christian Christmas holiday, and in 1992 Argentina indicted him for his involvement in the 1992 Buenos Aires bombing of the Israeli embassy. Prior to 2001, he killed more citizens of the United States than any other militant.

Death
In 2008, Mughniyah traveled to Kafr Sousa in the Syrian capital city of Damascus, where he attended the 29th Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution party held by Iranian ambassador Hojatoleslam Ahmad Musavi. At 10:30 PM Mughniyah left the party and headed to his Mitsubishi Pajero, and when he entered the vehicle, a high-explosive bomb hidden in the driver's seat headrest exploded. The bomb was detonated by remote, blowing Mughniyah's head off, destroying the car, without damage to nearby buildings. Israel's Mossad and several Arab countries were behind the assassination, and Syria, Lebanon, Italy, Kuwait, Jordan, and some Israeli sources condemned the assassination. However, the Bush Administration said that the world was a better place without him in it.